What apps have you tried to "de-google" yourself? (reddthat.com)

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Right now a lot of us are trying to divest and diversify from having our entire lives on Google both because of the way Google spends its money and the long-standing privacy concerns seeming a bit more scary now.

What services have you switched to and what has your experience been? What do you like, what don't you like, would you recommend them?

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[-] JustARegularNerd@lemmy.world 19 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Been degoogled for years at this point:

Stock Android --> LineageOS or GrapheneOS (no gapps)
YouTube --> Invidious*, NewPipe
Google Search --> DuckDuckGo, Brave Search
Google Play Store --> F-Droid, Aurora Store

I've also decoupled from other similar services:

Outlook --> ProtonMail
Calendar --> Nextcloud*
OneDrive --> Nextcloud*
Windows, macOS --> Linux (after years of distrohopping, I found LMDE is incredibly stable while still being a nice "out of box" distro)
Google Maps, Apple Maps --> OSMAnd, Organic Maps

I never used any online password manager myself, I went from writing passwords in a literal book to KeePass, to now Vaultwarden* for that

* - self hosted

[-] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 hours ago

Nice, I have also chosen most of the same as you. For custom ROM there's CalyxOS, which ironically makes a Pixel phone one of the best picks for deGoogleing
I don't like the proprietary style of Proton Mail, plus they charge to have more than one account logged in, which is very inconvenient, so I set up my own Mailcow instance

For YouTube I highly recommend ReVanced

For notes I use Apache-CouchDB and connect using Obsidian with the LiveSync plugin. Live sync is fantastic and is as close as I think I'll ever get to OneNote.

NextCloud is great, a pain in the arse to add existing files as you need to upload everything, but a few hours of uploading with Cloudflare set to DNS only is fine

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